Gender critical construction of reality
Spend any time around gender critical discourse and you invariably end up going through the looking glass into a parallel reality of their own devising. J K Rowling’s Twitter account has been one long series of weapons of mass distraction, deconstructing trans identities, attacking trans bodies, and whipping her audience into a confection of transphobia that is impossible to swallow. This dreamland conceives of women in their own image, where evidence does not change the dreamscape, only buttressing the fear and loathing towards trans bodies. Gender critical construction of reality centres all bodies on sex, all existence on sex, and all fears on excluding male labelled bodies from anything labelled female.
This hyperbole, the extreme exclusion of non-maleness, extends to all bodies that fall outside gender critical definitions. Science is mute, bodies are simply bodies, it is the social construction of those bodies that defines how we speak and institutionally frame them. To be a woman assigned at birth is to have an institutional label applied to your body along with all the attendant expectations and limitations that come with it. To be assigned woman at birth is to be placed in the category of woman without consent, to have the labelled imposed on to you, and then to be taught from birth what it is to be a woman. Gender critical voices accept this verbatim, indeed, the…
